Antoine Bonfanti

Un soupçon d'amour (2020)

A theater actress leaves her show to retire with her sick son to her childhood city. ...

Fragile as the World (2001)

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can't find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve their love story. ...

Life Lesson (1995)

To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost. Some fifty persons illustrate the planet's convulsions and the world's va ...

Rosa Negra (1993)

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Du ...

Guys in the Cafe (1989)

A night of drinking in a local cafe quickly turns to tragedy for two of its patrons. ...

Earthen Man (1989)

From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun) struggling with an impossible order. The man of land is "golemise", takes life in the countryside, and ends up dy ...

Killing the Saudades (1988)

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. ...

Repórter X (1987)

A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist. ...

Silent as a Fish (1987)

From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed (in the Polish fashion), also called in yiddish (Gefilte Fish) is a traditional dish eaten by A ...

Yawar fiesta: Fiesta de sangre (1986)

An indigenous tradition in the highlands of Peru where three key players take part: a wild condor, a raging bull and brave young men. ...

Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986)

A radiant young sex worker thrives amidst the clients of Paris's Les Halles under the protectiveness of her pimp. Her carefully balanced existence unravels when she meets a working‑class man and falls in love, forcing her to confront the emotional and so ...

The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985)

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman al ...

Notre mariage (1985)

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father. ...

The Judge (1984)

A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring. ...

Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose (1983)

The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada. ...

Sans Soleil (1983)

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco. ...

Salut la puce (1983)

Robert Dumortier and his son "La Puce" live on a barge moored to an island of the Seine and Robert dreams of cruising remote and exotic seas. ...

Ana (1982)

Centered on an elderly matriarch and her family in the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal. An exploration of the cycle of life and death, using the main character, Ana, as an emblem of a life lived in harmony with nature and tradition. ...

Le rose et le blanc (1982)

Carnaval de Guinée Bissao (1982)

In Bissau, the carnival, in its early days, was the cultural expression of the Portuguese settlers. Since the independence in 1974, it's a celebration for all the people. ...

Instinct de femme (1981)

Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a first step by serving as a "guinea pig" to her brother researcher who undertook a comparative study on animal behavior and human behavior. ...

Oxalá (1981)

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman. ...

C'est la vie ! (1981)

Ginette is at phone with the famous Rachah Rangers, who hosts a daily radio program. She talks about her break with Richard, her various relationship problems, her desires, fears and reproaches. Her friend, Simone Barbes, advised her to live, urgently, a n ...

Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980)

Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema's lobby. Tonight, she clocks out and heads off to meet her girlfriend, a waitress at a lesbian club. Later, she'll enc ...

To Woody Allen from Europe with Love (1980)

Initiated by producer-director Pierre Drouot, Woody Allen for the very first time agrees to let a filmmaker, Belgium's André Delvaux, film him during one of his own productions, Stardust Memories. Woody talks about his work, always steering clear of the a ...

Utopia (1979)

After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found and the city is silent. ...

West Indies (1979)

Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to thei ...

Le rouge de Chine (1978)

Five romantic characters share their lives in a vast castle. Each in his own way is looking for an absolute: J. wanders in the graveyard, B. hacks, C. causes love adventures, A. walks the forest on his horse, and F. repeats in a rock band . A. and J. nouri ...

Daguerréotypes (1978)

An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker's home for more than 50 years. ...

Exit 7 (1978)

A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airp ...

Djerrahi: une cérémonie soufie (1978)

The Theatre of the Matters (1977)

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs. ...

The Moving-Picture Man (1977)

Happy fun times with a little crew of people driving around to backwater villages to show movies in places where the locals don't get much culture. But all good things come to an end... ...

La Machine (1977)

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media. ...

Last Exit Before Roissy (1977)

We shall have the whole of death to sleep (1977)

Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the people who lived there, the Saharawis, a people now mobilised and in arms (the Polisario Front) against Morocco ...

Gloria Mundi (1976)

An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation. ...

Je suis Pierre Rivière (1976)

The story about Pierre Riviere, who tired of the constants demands of her mother to her father decides to kill her, but also his brother and his siste ...

I Love You, I Don't (1976)

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay. ...

Guerre du peuple en Angola (1975)

Guerre du peuple en Angola focuses on the situation in Angola in June 1975, when the declaration of independence sparks the start of a civil war. The filmmakers, who went there to train young Angolan filmmakers, bring back this film, unequivocally presenti ...

Hu-Man (1975)

An actor is placed in dangerous situations and his fear will be broadcast to the television audience. The audience's emotions will determine whether he is sent into the future or the past. ...

Met Dieric Bouts (1975)

A filmed essay about the painter Bouts. ...

India Song (1975)

Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life. ...

Zig Zig (1975)

Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home. ...

Raging Fists (1975)

Tony and Nanar, two teenagers who met in reform school, are part of a gang of idle, penniless youngsters from the Paris suburbs. Together, they go to dances and plan mischief. The muse of the gang, B.B. La Brune, organizes leisure activities when she's not ...

The Ambassadors (1975)

"Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country." This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to ...

Le voyage d'Amélie (1974)

In this gentle comedy, a disaffected group of young people bungle their first hold-up when the old lady they choose to rob turns out to be even poorer than they are. Not only that, but her husband has died, and she needs to get his body back to his hometow ...

Sweet Movie (1974)

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery. ...

The Madwoman of Toujane (1974)

This rambling political melodrama tells the story of a French Breton who learns about colonialism while teaching native students in France's colonies of Tunisia and Algeria and returns to his native Brittany to see that the same conditions prevail there. ...

Day for Night (1973)

A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew. ...

The Vertical Smile (1973)

A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another ...

Belle (1973)

Mathieu Grégoire is an esteemed author who lives in Spa with his wife and daughter and leads a carefully structured life. One day, while out in the desolate landscape of the High Fens he meets a mysterious woman whom he calls 'Belle'. An obsessive passion ...

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman. ...

To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next da ...

Tout Va Bien (1972)

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife. ...

The Inner Scar (1972)

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images. ...

Les jonquilles (1972)

Old Léon lives an hour outside Paris, in the company of one of his daughters, his son-in-law and his granddaughter. The latter agrees to take him to see his paralyzed cousin Adolphe in a Paris hospice. He takes the opportunity to visit his first wife, try ...

Delusions of Grandeur (1971)

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to ...

Struggle in Italy (1971)

The film reveals how and why a supposedly revolutionary Italian girl has in fact fallen prey to bourgeois ideology. ...

Vladimir and Rosa (1971)

Jean-Luc Godard's and Jean-Pierre Gorin's interpretation of the Chicago Eight / Chicago Seven trial, which followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention protest activities. Judge Hoffman becomes the character Judge Himmler (played by Ernest Menzer) and ...

Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad (1971)

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding f ...

The House of the Bories (1970)

Julien, a renowned geologist, lives with his wife Isabelle and their two children in a country house. But his sullen, uncompromising attitude leaves tensions high. The arrival of Carl-Stephane, a young German student, brings a breath of fresh air and light ...

Amougies (Music Power - European Music Revolution) (1970)

A film by Jerome Laperrousaz, showing the festival at Amougies, October 1969. ...

La Fin des Pyrénées (1970)

Thomas is a young man who rebels against society after witnessing his father's suicide. He embarks on a marginal and increasingly violent existence with Malvina, a woman he meets, as they attempt to escape societal pressures. Their journey ultimately leads ...

The People and Their Guns (1970)

Filmed in Laos in 1968, this four-part documentary examines the armed struggle against foreign intervention during the Indochina conflicts. The film focuses on the relationship between the population and guerrilla forces engaged in the war. ...

Les Ajoncs (1970)

An unemployed Algerian worker leaves Paris by hitchhiking. He soon found himself in Brittany and, seduced by the beauty of wild gorse, eventually established himself as a gorse merchant. But for problems with parking his little cart, he had a rough explana ...

Three (1969)

Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman. ...

Mr. Freedom (1969)

Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty ...

The Panafrican Festival in Algiers (1969)

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews ...

Rocky Road to Dublin (1968)

Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon examines the contemporary (1967) state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, "What do you do with your revolution once you've got it?" It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and c ...

One Night... a Train (1968)

The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his girlfriend Anne. She is French, he is Belgian, and, oddly enough for an enlightened Europe and a doubly enlightened university environment, this small diff ...

La Charnière (1968)

On April 27, 1968, workers from the Rhodiaceta factory in Besançon gathered at the village hall of Palente-les-Orchamps to attend the screening of the film À bientôt j'espoir by Mario Marret and Chris Marker. This sound documentary reproduces the critic ...

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968)

Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order. ...

Be Seeing You (1968)

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations for becoming involved with the union and the struggles of their day to day life. ...

A Question of Rape (1967)

A mysterious violent man breaks into a rich couples apartment and holding his wife hostage. The threatening and dangerous situation devolve into an erotic game. ...

Far from Vietnam (1967)

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. ...

The Killing Game (1967)

Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder. ...

Law of Survival (1967)

In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who she rescues from her kidnappers, who take advantage of her "charms" in a house of ill reputation. They hide ...

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills. ...

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid Germa ...

Naked Hearts (1966)

Two young men, Zim and Jean-Pierre, both sentenced for a minor offence, recognize one another when they are released from prison on the same day. One wants to reform, but his friend wants to stay a crook. The first one gets a job and begins improving his l ...

If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966)

Composed entirely of still photographs taken by Chris Marker across 26 countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries presents a dialogue between three voices reflecting on the meaning of images and travel. Through this photo-essay form, Marker explores the relation ...

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)

A model tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with prince charming all while fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men. ...

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966)

Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, ...

The War Is Over (1966)

On his way from Madrid to Paris, Diego, a chief of the Spanish Communist Party, is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to flee. When he arrives in Paris, he searches for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could ...

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966)

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume. ...

Up to His Ears (1965)

A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him. ...

Pierrot le Fou (1965)

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. ...

The Sucker (1965)

In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be ...

Happiness (1965)

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a d ...

The Married Woman (1964)

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover. ...

The Unvanquished (1964)

In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Tho ...

Band of Outsiders (1964)

Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps ...

Joy House (1964)

A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, where he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women. ...

Le temps d'Emma (1964)

Short about an old lady, the painter Emma Stern, 85, who began devoting herself to art when she was in her seventies. The film won the Lion de Saint-Marc in Venice. ...

Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)

In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit, Alphonse, with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, ...

Method 1 (1963)

In 1962, in the small town of Marvejols, young technicians from the RTF are trained to what can and should be direct cinema. "Liberate the camera, be able to throw it into the human space, into life. ...

The Lovely Month of May (1963)

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom. ...

Bay of Angels (1963)

A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict. ...

Bird of Paradise (1962)

A beautiful dancer has two admirers -- one is a young worker whom she has only met by accident, and the other is an unscrupulous businessman. The worker had been training as a Buddhist monk and as his interest in the dancer and the businessman's pursuit of ...

Magritte or the Object Lesson (1960)

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of mystery consists of images of familiar things gathered or transformed in ...

Life Lesson (1995)

To attain knowledge, man and woman had to be willing to give up their innocence," says Boris Lehman. Life Lesson is a poetic and philosophic reflection on the theme of paradise lost. Some fifty persons illustrate the planet's convulsions and the world's va ...

The People and Their Guns (1970)

Filmed in Laos in 1968, this four-part documentary examines the armed struggle against foreign intervention during the Indochina conflicts. The film focuses on the relationship between the population and guerrilla forces engaged in the war. ...

Bon pour le service (1963)